Spending the other night shackled, unable to raise my arms high enough to reach my keys, made me think of another bondage predicament that I’d read about some time ago….
It requires two buckets with a rope joining the two handles. The rope goes over a metal bar, secured higher than dummy can reach. So what you end up with is a makeshift scale. The rope is cut to the exact length so that when one of the buckets rests on the floor, the other is suspended high and out of reach.
The dummy is bound in such a way that his arms cannot reach the high bucket. Inside the high bucket are the keys to escape. Perhaps a small rock or two for added weight, just to be safe.
The other bucket will be filled with something, so that it is heavier and rests on the floor, leaving my keys suspended high in the air, out of my reach. The dummy’s task is to empty the lower bucket so it weighs less than the other bucket. When that happens, the bucket with the keys will be heavier, and thus, lowered to the floor where the Dummy can reach and then let himself out.
The challenge comes in emptying the bucket. And the difficulty of the challenge really depends on what’s in the bucket. It could be a huge amount of water. It could be a nastier fluid. It could also be something that’s really difficult to eat in large quantities. Brownie batter mixed with protein powder is one of the crueler ideas I’ve imagined.
I’ve also imagined filling the bucket with food, and not being allowed to eat anything else until I’m free. Depending on what it is, it could take a long time to consume it all. That would be a twisted mindfuck where I sort of have complete control over when I get out, yet at the same time, I’m inescapably stuck.
Locked Dummy 